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Atul Gawande's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” is a great fan of Dr. Watson: “He is intelligent, observant and faithful, the way we want all doctors to be.”

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By the Book: Atul Gawande (2014)

NYT By the Book column (2014-10-23).

Source: www.nytimes.com

My Struggle
Karl Ove Knausgaard · Buy on Amazon
"I've been hypnotized by My Struggle, Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume novel of his life. The immersive detail makes it feel as close as you can get to actually experiencing another person's life."
Consider the Lobster
David Foster Wallace · Buy on Amazon
"David Foster Wallace's essay collection Consider the Lobster. His writing is like drugs to me."
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009 · Buy on Amazon
"My favorite writing today: Hilary Mantel. She has that same Tolstoyan ability to make the odd and faraway worlds her characters inhabit feel like they matter to us."
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy · Buy on Amazon
"Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. It's the best portrayal of sickness and suffering I have ever read — minutely observed, difficult and still true a century and a quarter later."
Cover of Intoxicated by My Illness
Intoxicated by My Illness
Anatole Broyard · Buy on Amazon
"Anatole Broyard's amazing memoir of his own dying, Intoxicated by My Illness."
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman · Buy on Amazon
"Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down."
Cover of The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005 · Buy on Amazon
"Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking."
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · Buy on Amazon
"Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain."
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Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey · Buy on Amazon
"Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda. I love virtually everything Carey writes. The story is beautifully strange and tender, even though they are doomed. Carey provides some of the best evidence I know that it is possible to be both serious and funny."
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Getting Things Done
David Allen · Buy on Amazon
"I organize my life by David Allen's Getting Things Done. Literally. I follow it religiously."
Cover of The Inner Game of Tennis
The Inner Game of Tennis
Tim Gallwey · 1974 · Buy on Amazon
"I have read and reread Tim Gallwey's The Inner Game of Tennis for almost four decades. At its root, it's about closing the mental gap between potential and performance."
My Own Country
Abraham Verghese · Buy on Amazon
"It might be Abraham Verghese's first, My Own Country. Verghese seemed the kind of doctor and person I hoped to be — a careful thinker and observer. I think this book was an important reason I imagined I could write."

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